"He is our city's biggest champion, its most significant cheerleader, its most unflagging supporter," Ms. Quinn said.
Ms. Cargill's sprightly beauty and Mr. Buechele's unflagging pursuit helped throughout their courtship, but so did the religious devotion they shared.
But residents, whose unflagging opposition has helped win the fire company successive reprieves, insist that the loss of half their firefighters, as well as an engine with a built-in ladder to reach higher floors, would leave their community dangerously vulnerable.
But in the end generous parents, unflagging hard work and literally unmovable tenacity helped them find prosperity in an unusual enterprise in Queens.
By their dogged persistence and the unflagging tumult of their convocations, they have helped ward off the extinction of pre-millennial politics.
At 67, he is lean and fit, with the unflagging stamina of a graduate assistant.
None of this stopped him from testifying for the better part of four days, with unflagging precision, about his years of service, in the nineteen-eighties and early nineties, as the middleman between a Mobbed-up killer named Anthony (Gaspipe) Casso and the two cops, Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa, who he said helped Casso rub out suspected rats.
"The murals abound in visual incident, dramatic shifts of space and light and an unflagging energy," he wrote, describing crowded scenes of neighbors helping neighbors, social workers rescuing children from factory jobs, scientists toiling side by side with laborers for the good of all.
It is difficult to say whether the causes which he served to the end with unflagging enthusiasm or the countless individuals who had learned to look to him for help and encouragement will feel his loss most deeply.
She struggled when we first spoke in Toronto, and she struggled, unflagging, as we sat last October in her university office in Kingston, a room she keeps spare to help her mind stay clear to contemplate the intricacies of the erotic.
